Well worth the £7.80 boat trip to Bryher was this first-year SUBALPINE WARBLER - one of perhaps two birds that visited the archipelago this October.
A great showing by these small Sibes - LITTLE BUNTING - with perhaps 5 or 6 birds in total. Two such individuals spent the best part of a week affording excellent views as they consorted with a flock of Meadow Pipits in a grass field just inland of Porthellick Bay
The odd RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER made it to the islands
, including this first-winter on the Garrison.
, including this first-winter on the Garrison.A great showing by these small Sibes - LITTLE BUNTING - with perhaps 5 or 6 birds in total. Two such individuals spent the best part of a week affording excellent views as they consorted with a flock of Meadow Pipits in a grass field just inland of Porthellick Bay
No visit to Scilly in October is complete without seeing the annual JACK SNIPE migration at Lower Moors and Porthellick. A good crop of cut-reeds ensured a bumper crop of occurrencies - peaking at 8 birds early in the month.
